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by celticninja 4490 days ago
I would have to disagree.

>And that presuming that people with money in MtGox were Bitcoin proponents is not a giant stretch.

It is a giant stretch given that most people who knew a lot about bitcoin and the bitcoin economy, the proponents of bitcoin as it were, have had concerns over mtgox for quite some time. Actually I imagine many people who lost btc and/or fiat at mtgox were relative newcomers who were unaware of the ongoing problems and just saw mtgox as the largest exchange and most public facing one at that. So you are making a huge assumption on which you base your choice to condemn people for their choice.

There have been plenty of these sorts of comments all over the internet since mtgox collapsed,essentially saying:

"champion that it is not regulated, go running to the regulators when a problem arises"

the thing is that never has any one of these comments been followed up with an example or instance where the same person has espoused both beliefs/statements. This is generally because they dont exist and/or the commenter doesnt want to do any work to prove their point they just want to denigrate people they think they are smarter than. An exercise in self-pomposity essentially.